# The best way for @beep

Don Schwarz (darkowl@darkowl.pr.mcs.net)
Fri, 6 Sep 1996 16:54:59 PDT

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    On Sat, 7 Sep 1996 kai@xs4all.nl wrote:

    > Hia,
    >
    > We had a problem with people who were smart enough to just eval one of the
    > verbs which did substitutions, and got an escape code back:
    >
    > eval me.escape = $ansi:substitute("Blah[%red]Zoo")[5]
    > => ""
    > (but this was an escape...)
    >
    Ack!  Never write a verb that returns a string containing non-ascii
    characters.  The only verb in my ANSI system (well, in 2.1, before I fixed
    it to use binary strings) that accesses the escape and beep props did a raw
    notify() of the text after being called from the players' :notify, instead
    of the build-in so the text still went through w/o their :notify normally.
                                                          --Dark_Owl